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I would like to keep the Read/ Unread Status while I open/ double-click the e-mail on outlook. Unfortunately, It seems that there is not exist any default setting/ option to define the function. For the current status, when I double-click the unread mail, It would change the unread status to read status. Is there any approach/ method that could modify this setting? Many thanks for any feedback in advance.

Remark: I have googled a few pieces of information, but it focuses on changing the setting for appearing in the viewing pane and moving to another message. It is out of scope for my problem.

Wen Yuan Lo
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Once you read an email, it is "read". Natively that is the way Outlook works (and has worked for many years).

If you really need to read an email and then show it as "not read" you have to change the email status by right clicking and changing it to "unread" .

I use the "read" status to know I have looked at an email. If I file it before reading into its regular folder, it will remain unread in the folder until I action it.